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From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ELF and dynamic loading (Re: 386BSD vs Linux)
Date: 13 Nov 1994 01:00:56 -0500
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: In article <39uqd6$5uq@news.nynexst.com> hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu) writes:

:    Peter Caffin (ptcaffin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
:    : I'm thinking of setting up a network of 386s, with a large number of 
:    : external modem lines.  At this stage, I'm undecided between 386BSD and 
:    : Linux.
:    [he asks for relative strengths and weaknesses...]

:    If you care about the software development, maybe Linux has an
:    edge over xxxBSD. We are finishing the ELF and dynamic loading

: Arrrgh... please leave ignorant suggestions at home.

: If you *care* about software development, all three systems have very
: dedicated teams of developers, and all have excellent sets of
: development tools.

ELF is better than a.out. That is the point.

: I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to by "dynamic loading".
: Both NetBSD and FreeBSD have had dynamic run-time linking for over a
: year now.

Try to compile Perl 5.000 and see how dlopen/dlclose works under
Solaris. Linux has a good ELF implementation if not better. i486-linuxelf
has a better support for dlopen/dlclose than UnixWare, although
UnixWare can use binutils 2.5.3 to improve that :-).

BTW, patch for Perl 5.000 is ready to go and waiting for i486-linuxelf
to be released to public.


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